The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) will soon start monitoring the prices of smartphones and smartphone apps sold via the Apple App Store, Android Market and other smartphone marketplaces, adding them to the basket of goods that judges the national rate of inflation. The ONS updates its basket of goods annually, adding and replacing products and services that would consitute a representative sample of an average household purchases. These are used to calculate the monthly inflation rate which currently sits at 4%, double the rate that the Bank of England has targeted....

Anew reportfrom US network company Tellabs suggests an increased boom in smartphone use could result in mobile operators posting significant losses within three years unless the companies involved start to adopt technology that can increase revenue from their data services. Operators are increasingly investing in their mobile architecture, upgrading cell towers and rolling out improved data services on their networks, driving up investment costs as a result. An increase in smartphone use and the explosion of data consumption has left these companies with lower revenue per unit of data, meaning operators could soon be sent into the red....

It’s official, smartphones are the new portable gaming consoles. Only a few short years ago Sony and Nintendo were absolutely dominant in the portable gaming market with the PSP and Nintendo DS. Back then cell phone gaming was limited to snake and terrible Java games played on tiny, low-res screens. With the advent of Apple’s iPhone and the huge array of Android touch screen phones came a surge of game development in the smartphone space....

Smartphone pinky, text claw, and other injuries caused by excessive phone use Cell phone elbow Holding mobile phones up to the ear, or holding it up while lying in bed for a long period can cause discomfort, pain, and tingling in the forearm and little finger. Nicknamed “cell phone elbow,” this condition is known clinically ascubital tunnel syndromeand is caused by your shoulder rubbing against the ulnar nerve. This is one of the arm’s major nerves, and is the same nerve you whack when you hit your “funny bone....

There are 19 million smartphones in Brazil, that’s almost 9% of thetotal mobile phone market. That statistic is just one of many contained in a study recently released byGrupo.Mobiin partnership with the digital agencyW/McCannand IPSOS. We took a deeper look at the study and summarized the key points below: A fast-changing mobile market The study was conducted in February this year among 1000 cell phone owners. The interviews took place online, meaning that respondents also Internet users, a bias to keep in mind....